So tell me about kidney stones!

R Q

R Q

Well-Known Member
Joined
Apr 4, 2005
Location
Charlotte
Woke up with a sharp pain in my lower left abdomen yesterday and thought i had the Flu that my wife has. I don't have flu symptoms just sore there and weak as shit. Feel a little queasy too. Ive tried doing some core exercises in case it's just a muscle.
I've been online trying to figure out what it could be and this sounds close. Those with experience, let me know what you think.
 
Could be kidney stones or worse, your appendix is about to rupture. Growing up the first and only time I ever saw my Dad cry from pain was from kidney stones. He was always invincible to me, but those stones must have been hell to break him down like that.
 
My appendix scar and everyone else that I've seen is on the right side. Could still be appendix though. Gall bladder maybe. We are an off-roading community, not doctors.:D
 
If you're lucky, you'll piss out a kidney stone. They look like sand spurs you see at the beach from what they say. A good friend of mine had one and the doctor told him to buy a few cases of the cheapest shittiest beer he could find and drink like a fish until it comes out. This guy was a combat vet and drill sergeant and cried like a little girl when it finally happened.

I'm here for moral support. :D
 
Are u pissing blood? Feel u need to pee but can't? Does the pain move to your lower back? If so probably kidney stone. I get them often. And I'm a medical responder and go to them often. When my appendix started hurting it felt like a kidney stone, but just on my lower right abdomen . For me my kidney stones were much worse.
 
Sounds like what I went through back in high school, come to find out my appendix was so close to rupturing that I had to stay overnight in the hospital. BUT your pain is on the left side, your appendix is on the right. As for kidney stones your lower back will predominately hurt. I say go to a doctor asap just to verify what's going on
 
stones are generally accompanied by a raging urinary tract infection. you'll know it when you have it.
 
Stones, kidney that is, as noted can be on left or right side. I've had many and one surgically removed on the left side in Charlotte. Calcium Oxalate, likely caused by dehydration and lots of greens/milk in the diet. I've found that as soon as you feel the slightest pain starting drink as much lemonade as you can stand in a high concentrate. Its the little spurs that scrape your urinary tract that causes the pain. I've had good luck with lemon juice overload to disolve the spurs and the stone passes. But, intense pain may be a sign of too late to start that protocol. Drink lots more water/beer than you do now. Have lemonade frequently and cut back on greens may do it for you....did for me. Best of luck and follow what the doctor, if you see one, advises. PS, always hated coming down/off those morphine shots at the hospital.
 
I have kidney stones frequently due to a Kidney surgery I had when I was younger. For me the pain usually starts out as dull pain then turns into a sharp excruciating pain that can only usually be controlled by pain meds intravenously. They usually pump me full of fluids. Then I keep the pain at bay with pain pills until it passes. Like others have said getting fluids in are key. Water, Lemonade, ginger-ale, etc. I was told beer also helps but I don't drink beer. I usually pass them in about 24 hours. Unfortunately the last one lasted a week. I lost 30lbs because I couldn't eat. The pain was so bad I would just throw up whatever.
 
I just passed a 5mm stone in December. Went to er in pain at 4am lower left abdominal area. They did some blood work and a ct scan. Gave me pain killers and something called flowmax they usually give older guys with prostate problems. I pissed it out that afternoon, its pretty scary to see blood coming out down there LOL.

I've busted knuckles open wrenching at work so bad I could see the tendons in my finger and had to be stitched up, and hit my thumb with a 3lb sledge hammer knocking out a bearing. If you'd have asked me using the hospitals 1-10 pain scale last Thanksgiving I'd have said they were 8-9 on the scale.... Now they're like a 4. Good luck, the worst part for me was I couldn't get comfortable in any position.
 
Just to update y'all, and thank you for the replies. As it turns out it was just pre-full blown flu body aches that decided to settle in my left side and back. About two hours after I posted this thread, my whole body said to go sit/lay down now! I was planted to the floor, couch, or bed until Sunday when I HAD to go back out and clear ice from parking lots.
I was also dehydrated from a 5 day trip to Key West last weekend where we could only find alcohol to drink the entire time!:beer::beer::D
 
Back
Top